Line #12 Film/TheMusketeer


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4	->'''Rochefort:''' You have an interesting fighting style. Where did you acquire it?
5	->'''D'Artagnan:''' Here and there.
6	->'''Rochefort:''' Perhaps there. Certainly not ''here.''
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8	''The Musketeer'' is a 2001 film directed by Creator/PeterHyams, very loosely based on the classic {{swashbuckler}} novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. It stars Creator/TimRoth, Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/MenaSuvari, Creator/StephenRea and Creator/JustinChambers as D'Artagnan.
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10	As the title indicates, this adaptation beefs up the role of the main protagonist D'Artagnan, resulting in less focus on him and the titular trio being TrueCompanions. The original plot is pretty much abandoned.
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12	It also stands out among [[DerivativeWorks/DArtagnanRomances the many]] ''Three Musketeers'' movies by taking influence from the Chinese ''{{wuxia}}'' film genre of all things, giving D'Artagnan "exotic" Eastern-style ImplausibleFencingPowers and making him do insane Creator/JackieChan-style stunts - like a sword fight in a room full of ladders, or while hanging on ropes while scaling a tower. The fight choreography was handled by Xin-Xin Xiong, associate of director Creator/TsuiHark.
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14	!!'''This film contains examples of:'''
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16	* AdaptationalBadass: D'Artagnan's servant Planchet becomes his mentor and father figure, a retired Musketeer like D'Artagnan's dead father, and a pistol-packing GunNut who carries a ''cannon'' in his carriage.
17	* AdaptationDecay: When the plot of the novel is lost entirely, the titular Three Musketeers are DemotedToExtra, and the villain is an {{Expy}} of a previous film’s villain…
18	* AdaptationalJerkass: Bonacieux who's turned into a DirtyOldMan lusting after his niece.
19	* AdaptationNameChange: LoveInterest Constance Bonacieux becomes Francesca.
20	* AdaptedOut: The usual FemmeFatale, Milady de Winter.
21	* AxCrazy: Cardinal Richelieu's henchman Febre the Man in Black (Creator/TimRoth). To the point that Richelieu has to plead with D'Artagnan to stop him by the end.
22	* BadassBoast: After being honored by Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artangan whispers in his ear, "One night, ''I will come for you''."
23	* BarBrawl: On the road to Paris, D'Artagnan stops at an inn where this breaks out. Rochefort is an observer instead of the one fighting D'Artagnan as in the book.
24	* BloodKnight:
25	** When D'Artagnan is surprised at the stood-down Musketeers fighting amongst themselves in a bar brawl, he's simply told "A man has to fight ''someone''."
26	** Febre is a darker version, killing targets against the Cardinal's explicit orders and stirring up a war pretty much for it's own sake.
27	* {{Bowdlerize}}: Francesca is Monsieur Bonacieux's niece, instead of wife as in the novel.
28	* CanonForeigner: Febre is not in the original novel, and seems created only to steal Rochefort's role in the story.
29	* CasualDangerDialogue: When Aramis and Porthos join D'Artagnan in a fight.
30	-->'''Aramis:''' We just wanted to see how good you are.
31	-->'''D'Artagnan:''' And?
32	-->'''Aramis:''' You're quite good.
33	* CombatPragmatist: Febre goes after Monsieur de Treville, who challenges him to a sword duel. Febre simply shoots him.
34	* CreepyUncle: Bonacieux who spies on his niece Francesca in the bath.
35	* DeathByAdaptation: D'Artagnan's father, yet again. And his mother too. Treville bites it as well.
36	* DamselInDistress: At the climax of the film Febre takes Francesca and the Queen hostage in a castle.
37	* DemotedToExtra: Athos suffers badly from this while Aramis and Porthos aren’t much better off.
38	* DragonInChief: Febre is TheDragon to Richelieu, but its he that D'Artagnan wants to kill. And given that Richelieu is just an AntiVillain and Febre a [[TheSociopath murderous sociopath]], Richelieu is inclined to allow it.
39	* {{Expy}}: Original character Febre is one for the depiction of Rochefort in the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993 film version]]. Rochefort himself is a separate character here, ironically killed by Febre. He is also a CompositeCharacter with Milady, both being Richelieu's ruthless assassin who turn out to be too dangerous to control.
40	* EyepatchOfPower: Febre wears one shaped more like a bandage. This continues the tradition of one of the villains wearing an eyepatch.
41	* EyeScream: Febre is blinded in one eye when he kills D'Artagnan's parents. D'Artagnan himself did it as a boy.
42	* FrameUp: Febre and his men massacre a Spanish ambassador and his retinue and leaves a Musketeer tunic behind. Naturally, the King disbands the Musketeers. His actual ''orders'' were for he and his men to wear the uniforms and just scare them, but Febre got bored...
43	* InNameOnly: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis who have the names, but none of the characteristics of the Dumas originals.
44	* InterestingSituationDuel: The final duel between D'Artagnan and Febre takes place in a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with shelves of big wine barrels. There are also lots of ladders, with the two fighters leaping from one to another, walking them across the floor, swinging through space clinging to them, and finally, incredibly, balancing one on a center beam and using it as a seesaw for their final showdown.
45	* LandingInSomeonesBathtub: In the same room, at least.
46	* {{MacGyvering}}: The Musketeers attach a fuse to a ''wine cask'' and use it to blow open the door during a JailBreak to free their captain Monsieur de Treville.
47	* MookLieutenant: Rochefort, who is demoted from being TheDragon as in other movie versions. When Febre breaks away from the Cardinal, he tries to stop him but only gets killed for his trouble.
48	* NotWhatItLooksLike: The Musketeers find Francesca in D'Artagnan's room (actually there delivering a secret mission from the Queen). When he has to tell them he can't help them because "there's something I must do" (said mission) they offer to wait outside.
49	* ParentalSubstitute: Planchet raises D'Artagnan after his parents' deaths.
50	* SewerGator: At one point D'Artagnan and the Musketeers have to lead the King and Queen through safety in the sewers, and the Queen mentions rumors of crocodiles in the place. Which transplants a ''modern American'' UrbanLegend into ''17th-century France''.
51	* StormingTheCastle: D'Artagnan goes off to rescue Francesca and the Queen all on his own, but the entire Musketeer corps and Planchet show up to help.
52	* TakingTheBullet: Francesca for D'Artagnan in the climax. [[spoiler: she survives.]]
53	-->'''Francesca''': [[spoiler: I'm not dead, now please go kill him.]]
54	* ThoseTwoGuys: Porthos and Aramis, since Athos is DemotedToExtra. They're respectively FatAndSkinny.
55	* UpperClassTwit: The King is portrayed as one. When Richelieu engineers a riot to barge into a royal banquet, the King just stands up and shouts "Stop! Stop! I ''order'' you to stop!" to no avail. Luckily D'Artagnan and the Musketeers rescue him and the Queen, but he then refuses to enter the sewers they had used to sneak in, until an exasperated Porthos asks him if he would rather go back to the riot.
56	* WhatTheHellHero: A furious Aramis gives one to D’Artagnan, questioning where he was after Treville’s death and when they needed help rescuing the other Musketeers.
57	* WomenAreWiser: The Queen is much wiser than the King who's a bit of a sexist himself, telling her off when she wants to join policy discussions because "the role of a queen is not to think". He then orders his attendants to escort her away as [[BlatantLies "the Queen wishes to return to her chamber."]]
58	* XanatosSpeedChess: Richelieu tries to do this to compensate for Febre screwing up all his plans (taking a fairly neutral political maneuver to give the Cardinal more influence at court and turning it into a PretextForWar in the process), but eventually he just gives up and sides with D'Artagnan.
59	* YouKilledMyFather: Febre made D'Artagnan an orphan.
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